“…Investigators have also indicated that there is a need to develop and evaluate scales to measure parent satisfaction (Guidubaldi & Cleminshaw, 1985James, Schumm, Kennedy, Grigsby, & Shectman, 1985;Marini, 1980;Tarter et al, 1993). Although measures of parental satisfaction with their children exist, several of these inventories are difficult to interpret because items that assess parental satisfaction with their youth are embedded within scales of family satisfaction (Schumm, McCollum, Bugaighis, Jurich, & Bollman, 1986), maternal role satisfaction (Bowen, 1982), or scales that evaluate other dimensions of the parent-adolescent relationship (e.g., attachment, independence, conflict, broad skill deficits, parental strengths, and needs) (Robin et al, 1990;Strom & Strom, 1998;Strom et al, 1994;Sullivan & Sullivan, 1980). Unfortunately, many measures that purport to assess parents' satisfaction with their youth evidence psychometric problems or lack of clinical utility, including (a) exclusive evaluation of overall satisfaction and/or nonspecified behaviors (Ge et al, 1992;Guerney, 1977;Guidubaldi & Cleminshaw, 1985James et al, 1985;Marini, 1980;Schlein, Guerney, & Stover as cited in Guerney, 1977), (b) evaluation of satisfaction with the parents' children rather than a specific target child (Guidubaldi & Cleminshaw, 1985James et al, 1985;Marini, 1980), and (c) no assessment of reliability and validity in samples of parents with adolescents (Farber & Jenne, 1963;Frederiksen, Jenkins, & Carr, 1976;Ge et al, 1992;Guidubaldi & Cleminshaw, 1988;Schlein et al as cited in Guerney, 1977;Tarter et al, 1993).…”